The navigator was to keep the plane on course, getting the plane from Tinian to Hiroshima on time. But there were questions, picture taking, tape interviewing and everything. Dick Nelson said it looked like a supermarket opening. I said it looked like a Hollywood premiere. We get down to the airplane, and the Manhattan Project had it lit up with a whole bunch of lights. I don't know how they expect to tell you that you're going out to drop the atom bomb and not know if it's going to work or if it's going to blow up the airplane, and then tell you to go get some sleep. They called us about 10 or 11 in the evening. We were going to drop the bomb, Sweeney was going to fly the instruments, George was going to fly the picture airplane, Bock was flying one of the weather airplanes. At the briefing that day, they told you who was assigned to what airplanes. He told me, 'We're going to do something that I can't tell you about right now, but if it works, it will end or significantly shorten the war.' And I thought, Oh, yeah, buddy. When Tibbetts was picked to be commanding officer, he named me group navigator. Navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima
